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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- De: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.
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An American Tragedy
- De Edith en 12-13-07
- American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- De: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
Great and Comprehensive History Poor Audio Quality
Revisado: 08-19-23
This is a comprehensive, exhaustively researched biography and history of Oppenheimer, his family and his associates. It has a strong narrative structure the reads much like a Greek trajedy. Very valuable reading or listening.
The narration by Jeff Cummings is very good. He is fluent and engaging.
The one, very odd, failing of this recording is the audio quality. It has the quality of a recording of an abridged reading of the book that has been intercut with additional narration to make it an unabridged recording. The audio quality of what sounds like additions is substantial different in volume, tone and voice clarity. It is like, every so often and at random, the narrator is reading a footnote rather than the main text. It is very distracting. Audible should re-engineering the audio on this recording. At 26 hours this poor quality audio cutting is hard to endure.
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Getting to Diversity
- What Works and What Doesn't
- De: Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev
- Narrado por: Linda Jones
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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Every year America becomes more diverse, but change in the makeup of the management ranks has stalled. The problem has become an urgent matter of national debate. How do we fix it? Arguing that it's time to focus on changing systems rather than individuals, two of the world's leading experts on workplace diversity show us a better way in the first comprehensive, data-driven analysis of what succeeds and what fails. The surprising results will change how America works.
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Disappointing
- De Kimberly A. Whittaker en 07-23-24
- Getting to Diversity
- What Works and What Doesn't
- De: Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev
- Narrado por: Linda Jones
Great Book, Terrible Performance
Revisado: 02-24-23
This is an invaluable guide to DEI implementation.
It describes research with regard to what works and what does not. The performance, unfortunately, is terrible. Every sentence is delivered with the same sing - song pattern if raising and lowering of voice . Every sentence is delivered so that you are to believe that you have just been given a secret insight. In the end I deleted the audiobook and bought the Kindle version.
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How Civil Wars Start
- And How to Stop Them
- De: Barbara F. Walter
- Narrado por: Beth Hicks
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger? Barbara F. Walter has spent her career studying civil conflict in places like Iraq, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka, but now she has become increasingly worried about her own country.
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Reveals the limits of a Political Science approach
- De Bill en 01-17-22
- How Civil Wars Start
- And How to Stop Them
- De: Barbara F. Walter
- Narrado por: Beth Hicks
A Book That Helps to Understand Our Current Time
Revisado: 09-10-22
This is a book that is based on rigorous research across countries and time. This being said, it is very accessible. It's concepts and frameworks are fact-based but also ring true from general experience. Even if one is not interested in the specific subject of the origins of civil wars, it informs on the topic of how democracies can slip toward autocracy. Walter's truest, most troubling statement is that we need not worry about autocratic takeover as a result of a military coup. Rather, today, movement toward autocracy is being driven by voters themselves.
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